NOTES

Although I have found many, slightly different meanings for the word samsara,all definitions seem to carry a negative connotation, as the word always seems toimply a state of despair. It is created when the posing of questions leads to nothingbut more questions that begin a vicious cycle of confusion that is ultimately neverresolvable. In this sense, samsara is the polar opposite of its counterpart word, nirvana.